Tag: Lew-Rockwell

Rothbard: Anarcho-communism, both in its original Bakunin-Kropotkin form and its current irrationalist and “post-scarcity” variety, is poles apart from genuine libertarian principle.”
Striker: Communism was, and remains, a version of totalitarian insanity a.k.a. Government. Calling the current batch of rebel socialists anarcho-communists, as we see almost daily in today’s web-spin, is a complete twist of reality.

The term “anarcho-capitalism” has, we might say, rather an arresting quality. But while the term itself may jolt the newcomer, the ideas it embodies are compelling and attractive, and represent the culmination of a long development of thought.

If I had to boil it down to a handful of insights, they would be these: (1) each human being, to use John Locke’s formulation, “has a property in his own person”; (2) there ought to be a single moral code binding all people, whether they are employed by the State or not; and (3) society can run itself without central direction.

No-Ruler.net is not about the symptoms, which have been there always and growing, and which today only add to the Reasons for trashing government, with the people then free to form Voluntary associations which leaves themselves free of any obligation to any Ruler.? “healthcare reform” is our last straw.? We must REFUSE, in every way […]

In 1922 Ludwig von Mises described in his book Socialism why a socialist system could not last. This was not a popular view. The illusion of socialism?s success had real staying power; it took 70 years for the USSR to wheeze its final proof of his position, fooling most people (e.g. analysts at the CIA) […]

by Murray N. Rothbard published at Lew Rockwell Originally published in Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics, edited by Mark Skousen. New York: Praeger (1992). Pp. 171–198. John Maynard Keynes, the man – his character, his writings, and his actions throughout life – was composed of three guiding and interacting elements. The […]

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Do you think ideas don’t matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest. A new BBC poll finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world ? and 29,000 people were […]